October is a month studded with the birth dates of Britain’s greatest ‘pens’ from Oscar Wilde to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( Oct 21) Although born on this day in Ottley, Devon in 1772, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived in Highgate Village for the last twenty years of his life. Today the picturesque […]
Did this conversation between Cassius Clay (as he was then known), Malcolm X, soul singer Sam Cooke and American footballer Jim Brown actually take place? That’s debatable, but without doubt these three men were close pals of The Greatest and if we are led to believe they were together chatting in this hotel room after […]
With an idea which remains refreshingly simple in its execution despite its twists and turns, director Tate Taylor takes us on an express train ride through alcoholic lead character Rachel Watson’s (Emily Blunt) inebriated and confused version of the events leading to the death of her ex-husband’s nanny. Adapted from a book by Paula Hawkins […]
Caravaggio’s technique of using intense contrasts of deepest shadows against whites with moon-like colour came to be known as chiaroscuro. The overall effect is to charge the piece with drama and also create a sense of compositional volume. It was imitated not only by 17th-century artists such as Valentin de Boulogne and Jusepe de Ribera […]
The British weather may be dishing out a dose of the expected but October promises to be a month of stirring theatre productions guaranteed to light up any evening and chase those rain clouds away. Kicking off this week is One Night in Miami, a play about boxing great Muhammad Ali, set in the 60s […]
“If one is a master of one thing well, one has insight into and understanding of many things.” This simple quote by Vincent Van Gogh sums up in one sentence the importance of all artists learning the tradition, rules and methods of the Old Masters, even if those lessons are later inverted or even discarded […]
It was red carpet night at the Roxy on October 8th! A weekend when the cream of short-filmmakers and emerging talent were invited to show the world what they were capable of. And once they had braved the videographers trying to squeeze an interview out of them before they even took their seats, the festival […]
Here is a selection of promotional photos from some of the films being screened at the Hot Shorts Film Festival London 2016 on Saturday October 8th, Roxy Bar & Screen, London. Match the titles (alphabets) to the photos (numbers) for a chance to win free entry and join directors and guests on the red carpet. […]
Run by a husband and wife team from Algeria and Lebanon respectively, the Arabian Garden restaurant in Stratford, East London stands out on the High Street as a must-visit. The inviting exterior opens into a restaurant with distinctly Middle Eastern ambience and an elegant sense of space from the well positioned décor and dining areas. […]
Director Tim Burton’s interpretation of American author Ransom Riggs’ debut novel has his distinctive gothic, offbeat flavour all over it, from Miss Peregrine’s raven-black take on the blue rinse all the way to the grotesque Hollows – monsters who’d look more at home in a horror movie than a children’s drama. Jake is a young […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
